{easter}

Making Easter cards for some very important peeps {ha!}

Family pic!

Hunting for eggs!

After the hunt!

Mine! They are all mine!!

My dad made Pman this growth chart for xmas but it wouldn't fit in the car to bring home! it has to be mounted to the wall 6 inches up but its home now (thanks for fulfilling my request for one dad!!)

catch-all

Do you have a catch-all area in your house?

Is your whole house a catch-all area?

Maybe I needed to put this as a resolution of mine.  My table and the end tables have become my catch-all areas. 

I'm in need of an intervention I think!  

Maybe by tomorrow the table will be cleaned off so we can eat on it without 

clearing a space first....oye.

I would keep all my overflow catch-all items in my mom's buffet but it doesn't exactly fit nicely upstairs with all this baby stuff....well okay before baby stuff it didn't fit well either....so it's downstairs.

What's your organizational hints/tips/tricks?  

Where do you keep bills that need to be paid?

Extra pens, scotch tape, etc?

Help me out!

{5 months}

So, I'm almost a week late posting this...however we are all recovering from the stomach bug....Chad's actually been in bed for most of the day again. This afternoon it seemed to hit him again. However, he did not ease back into eating =) so it's probably his own fault!

[month 1]
[month 2]
[month 3]
[month 4]

He is now tall and heavy! 
{not for sure details because we haven't had to go to the dr recently WOOP!}

HE:

has been sleeping in his crib much better!.....
...however has spent the last week in the RNP again because of the stomach bug....

cut his first tooth!....
and second tooth!

holds his own bottle........

has mastered rolling over from back to belly......

moved into mostly 6 month clothes.......

battled the stomach bug again......

enjoys snuggling in the morning.....

is a screecher!

doesn't love his carseat that much......

likes to play with his pacifiers now...pulling it out and popping it back in.....

got his first bloody lip....he bit his own lip while chewing on a teether (dang teeth)

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Some things that we I couldn't have lived without his fifth month:

Little Remedies for Fevers-- however it was used for pain.  Poor dude and the teeth he FINALLY cut was in some serious pain while those little suckers came up.

  Gmail-- because I've been emailing my sister a lot about different questions I have!

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Our little man is growing and flourishing!  He recently started playing with Sadie.  She brings a toy over and sets it on his chest and he will grab it and play tug of war with her.  It's cute.  His personality shines through every day.   I asked Chad the other day "What did we do pre-Parker?"  He just laughed and said "Nothing".  Yes I'm a huge homebody, but really, who wants to go galavanting around in the winter??  Once the weather gets nicer there is MUCH more things we can go out and do!  

Enjoy the last month through pictures!

{commit} update 2

I'm checking in with my 2013 commitments!

The original posts with my checkin in red!!

Yep! Still not bringing home much work at all and haven't been going to work on the weekends! However I have been next door visiting a bit more lately.....
-----Totally doing this!  I don't bring much of anything home and I've only went to the school one day on one weekend...that's it! WOOP WOOP-----------
I didn't bring home piles of work each night/weekend.  I didn't spend countless hours at the school on the weekends.  Sure, maybe once a month (dang centers) I spent a few good hours there on a Sunday....but it wasn't EVERY weekend or EVERY night. 

**I'm committing to that again.  

I need to use my time at the school wisely and not always 

over talking to bugging Alysha :-)

I only have the evenings with Parker once I'm back at work so I want to make the most out of them.  Sure I might have a few things to bring home to work on here and there, but it won't be as much as it used to be.

Less boxed meals are being made and we are now consistently having a vegetable each night.

---Let's not talk about this one yet.  I'm not making boxed meals and neither is Chad as much, but I still feel like they could be better. So, still working on this one.------
**I also want to try and make cleaner meals...less boxed stuff.  

I'm committing to 1x a week for now.  I think that's reasonable.  

I can't commit to an all or nothing....that isn't reasonable.

....still working on finding a happy medium.... hopefully something will find us soon because we are going to have a crawler in a few short months from the way he's trying to pull himself right now!
------This is still a work in progress.  We are teaming the cleaning but doing it all in one day--------
**I also want to find a balance for keeping the house clean.  I used to spend one day during the weekend to clean...that gets to be too much when your husband is just a "picker upper" and not a "cleaner".  So maybe Mondays I'll clean up the whole kitchen, Tuesdays I'll do windows, etc etc.  I'm bound to find a balance somewhere. I've got quite a few "cleaning schedules" pinned on pinterest....

Cleanin' Fool

orGaniZe mE

...nothing more has really gone up.  I did put some blocks up and changed out seasonal decor....
----Got the coat hooks up finally! That's a start!------
**I am committing to finally getting the house decorated....

not yet....
------Haven't done this yet-------

**I'd like to explore the Dave Ramsey envelope system again...

not committing to doing it, just exploring it a little more.

We went through and got rid of tons of stuff! It's not perfect, but it is better!

------Haven't done this yet-------

**The utility room WILL get organized in 2013...COMMITTED!

I've read a sleep book and I'm reading a baby food book right now...so nothing for pleasure since the first two.
----I have totally read 2 books so far!-----

**I'm committing to reading 1 book for pleasure this year.  
I haven't done this in awhile and I'd like to.  

So I'm committing to one, if I read more than that GREAT!   

I went to a Pinterest Party and tried a maple bacon doughnut (but only because it was brought to me at work--for the record...it wasn't that bad). So that is 3 things already that I can think of currently--it may be more.
-----I tried new make up in January.  I really like it!  Yoga is in my near future also I think!-------

**I'm committing to trying/doing/going to 5 different things.  Maybe it's going to a new store, going for a walk in a different park than normal, trying to crochet, attending an event we've never been to... WHO KNOWS! The possibilities are endless!

 I would commit to 12, but that is one a month and that 

is not currently reasonable for ME. 

 5 is a good number...

I still haven't found a good solution.  
---This is in place and is lame...not fond of it at all------

I've also got a new bill book idea that we will be starting in January.  With this record keeping I have decided it's best to start fresh by following the calendar....so this doesn't get changed up often =)


How are your 2013 commitments going???

Hangin' out

We've been busy!

 Hangin' out in our jumper (not jumping, just hanging out)

Swimming in the ocean (hanging out with dad for the day)

Playin' on the floor with Sadie (trying to scoot around)

More jumper cuteness...

We had company for the weekend!

 The icicles were as tall as her!

Parker thinks his cousins are pretty fun!

Chad showed us how deep the drifts are out back....

Then was asked to make a snow angel (which he had trouble getting up from!)

Ending our weekend relaxing.

Weekly recap!

Recapping our week!

Wipes make THE coolest noise ever!

Many clothes got packed away this week...dang kiddo is LONG!

Daddy read me my bedtime story!

Parker helped "organize" the utility room!

We got to FaceTime with Lizzie!

Weston and his family came to visit!

Not too sure about this outside business.....

Hanging out inside is MUCH more fun right now!

This is how we found Parker after his afternoon nap today {Saturday}.

He has slowly becoming a rolling machine!  

Starts out on his back and goes over to his belly! Woo hoo!

{four months}

[month 1]
[month 2]
[month 3]

He is now 25.5 inches tall and 15lbs 0oz!

HE:

started sleeping in his crib....
but that isn't going as well as hoped (for Chad or Parker)...

has started to teeth.....

 is drinking lots of 6oz bottles.......

enjoys playing in his jumper thingy.........

would rather sit up than lay down.....

likes to facetime while doing tummy time......

has started to hold his own bottle for part of his feeds.......

thinks it's pretty funny when Sadie lays on him......

has started grabbing at his toys.......

enjoys not wearing socks.......

takes his plug out and pops it back in......

spins circles and moves around pretty good!

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Some things that we I couldn't have lived without his fourth month:

Carter's teething bibs--this is what they are called...I know I put bibs down last month but seriously! How did we not know these existed?!  Even any bib for that matter that was thick or had a "plasticy" back??

Baby Einstein Jumper--he has been enjoying this! He hasn't quite got the jumping part down but all the toys are super fun to play with!  We added more on also.

Lovies--(he also has a blue monkey that has a rattle in it) that's what we call them anyhow...These have seriously been our savior for naps at home (and Ema at daycare even got him a lion one for there!) and bedtime.  I went in last week to get him from his nap and he had a death grip on BOTH the monkey and the giraffe!

Undershirts--so we call them....I do not have a sweaty sleeping baby anymore! He is now sleeping in one of these onesies and a fleece sleeper.  We let him sleep with a blanket in the Rock-n-play unswaddled *GASP* I know...but now that he is in his crib I don't want to risk him pulling the blanket over his head since he can't figure out how to take it off yet.  But it seems like it's enough and he doesn't seem cold.  We tried a sleep gown the first few nights out of the RNP but with his new found love of lifting and slamming his legs, this lead us to no sleep town...so for now we will stick with the sleepers with legs until he's done slamming legs =)

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His little faux hawk is the best!